Overview and update

1. What it is and What it is not

2. The Problem Analysis

3. Conditions for Success

4. Major Steps so Far

TerrAfricaEnabling and Implementing the Scaling Up of Sustainable Land

Management7-8 September 2005

Johannesburg, South Africa

What is TerrAfrica?

TerrAfrica is designed as a partnership between sub-Saharan African

countries, donor countries and agencies, civil society and the research community with the

collective goal of scaling up the mainstreaming and financing of effective and efficient country-driven sustainable

land management approaches (SLM).

TerrAfrica is not a project, a unilateral World Bank program or a new fund.

It is not to replace existing efforts but to enable scale up and increase in

efficiency.

What TerrAfrica is not?

Institutional and sectoral Knowledge and technology disseminationPolicyDelivery mechanisms for implementationFinancing

Agenda: Preventing and reversing land degradation and supporting implementation of the goals set under the UNCCD and the CAADP

Improved Land Management towards SLM

Support falls short of stakeholder’s expectations (confirmed perceptions result in multiple calls for action)

WHY?

Current business model does not take enough account of critical bottlenecks to implementing SLM. Analysis increasingly reveals the complexity of bottlenecks is growing as is the disconnect between the supporting mechanisms (policy dialogue, financing instruments…) and the multiple calls for action.

TerrAfrica: A multi-partner platform informed by an analytical approach and an action oriented coalition built upon three inter-related programmatic activity lines (AL).AL 1: Building coalitions and partnership at global and regional levelsAL 2: Enhancing knowledge management, including generation at global and regional levelsAL 3: Developing programmatic mainstreaming and investments at country and sub-regional levels

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Need Progress to promote…

But…

Bottlenecks and Disconnects*

Provides a collective vehicle for addressing disconnects and bottlenecks resulting in unlocking of financial and non financial resources allowing for…

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Partner ownership and driveness

Broad-based participation including civil society and local stakeholders.

Transparency and accountability

Subsidiarity based on partners’ comparative advantage

Measurable and sustainable performance and results

Unlocking Resources Country level (domestic and international) TLF and pooling Programmatic use of GEF support Co- and Parallel financing

Conditions for Success

Framing workshop held in Paris, June 2004 concluded the need for a new and more collaborative “business model” to support SLM investmentsFollowing 12 months efforts focused on consolidating and formalizing the partnership

Defining an agreed upon governance structureDeveloping strategy and joint business planning frameworkEstablishing as World Bank Global Partnership ProgramGEF SIP approved for pipeline entry

Follow up consultations to finalize partnership structure and planning prior to planned launch in October at the 7th COP of the UNCCD

Side event and consultations held with partners at UNCCD CRIC in Bonn, May 2005Consultation with agencies and donors, Rome, June 2005Working Group to finalize key documents establishedConsultations with African partners in Johannesburg, Sep 2005

First meeting of Executive Committee planned September 2005

Major Steps so Far